Joseph Agassi’s last book, The Philosophy of Practical Affairs, offers a comprehensive look at key philosophical topics and doctrines with a common focus on the role of rationality, the evolution of ...rationality and the relationship between rationality and akin phenomena. A key topic he addresses is the relationship between rationality and magic. This dichotomy reverberates on a number of areas of applied philosophy, including philosophical practice and philosophically informed psychotherapy. Agassi’s views on magic offer a fundamentally rationalist view of the phenomenon of magic, however they open up significant inroads into nuanced insights of how magic can be seen as a cognitively significant complement to rationality in the strict sense.
Rad se bavi odnosom između organskih i institucionalnih oblika društvene kontrole s točke gledišta mogućeg doprinosa filozofijske prakse razumjevanju društvenih sankcija. Argumentacija polazi od ...empirijske činjenice da zakoni i ustavi različitih zemalja, u svojim preambulama, najčešće definiraju svrhu kažnjavanja u utilitarističkom svjetlu. Ovaj operativno-utilitarni karakter institucionalne društvene kontrole sličan je utilitarnoj prirodi filozofskog savjetovanja kao praktične djelatnosti. Kada se kontrola, koja podrazumijeva neku vrstu »nasilja«, sagleda u širokom razumijevanju pojma nasilje, otvara se prostor za diskusiju o izazovnom i kontroverznom pitanju o tome može li nasilje biti integrativno kako u smislu integracije vrijednosti, tako i u smislu potvrđivanja nečijeg socijalnog statusa nakon prijestupa i to u mjeri većoj nego što su to institucionalizirane i od pojedinca relativno konceptualno udaljene vrste sankcija.
Der Artikel befasst sich mit dem Verhältnis zwischen organischen und institutionellen Formen der sozialen Kontrolle unter dem Gesichtspunkt des etwaigen Beitrags der philosophischen Praxis zur Deutung der sozialen Sanktionen. Die Argumentation geht von der empirischen Tatsache aus, dass die Gesetze und Verfassungen verschiedener Länder in ihren Präambeln den Zweck der Bestrafung zu allermeist in einem utilitaristischen Licht definieren. Dieser operativ-utilitäre Charakter der institutionellen sozialen Kontrolle ähnelt der utilitären Natur der philosophischen Beratung als praktische Tätigkeit. Wenn eine Kontrolle, die eine gewisse Art „Gewalt“ einbegreift, in einer ausgedehnten Auffassung des Begriffs der Gewalt besehen wird, wird ein Raum für die Diskussion der herausfordernden und kontroversen Frage darüber erschlossen, ob die Gewalt integrativ sein kann, sowohl im Sinne der Werteintegration als auch im Sinne der Bestätigung des sozialen Status eines Individuums nach einem bestimmten Vergehen, und zwar in einem größeren Ausmaß, als dies die institutionalisierten und vom Einzelnen konzeptuell relativ entfernten Arten von Sanktionen sind.
Ce travail aborde la relation entre les formes organiques et institutionnelles du contrôle social en partant du point de vue selon lequel la pratique philosophique pourrait contribuer à la compréhension des sanctions sociales. L’argumentation prend pour point de départ les faits empiriques sur la base desquels les lois et les constitutions de différents pays, dans leurs préambules, définissent le plus souvent le but de la sanction à la lumière de l’utilitarisme. Ce caractère opérationnel et utilitariste du contrôle social institutionnel est semblable à la nature de la consultation philosophique en tant qu’activité pratique. Lorsque le contrôle, qui sousentend une sorte de « violence », est analysé par rapport à une large conception de la notion de violence, s’ouvre l’espace de la discussion qui aborde la question difficile et controversée de savoir si la violence peut être intégrative, autant au sens d’une intégration des valeurs, qu’au sens d’une confirmation d’un statut social suite à un acte répréhensible, et cela dans une plus large mesure que sont les types de sanctions institutionnalisées et relativement éloignées de l’individu d’un point de vue conceptuel.
The paper explores the relationship between organic and institutional forms of social control from a potential contribution by philosophical practice to understanding social sanctions. The argumentation begins from the point of empirical fact that laws and constitutions of various countries define the purpose of punishment in a utilitarian light in their preambles. This operational-utilitarian character of institutional social control is similar to the utilitarian nature of philosophical consulting as practice. When control, which presupposes a form of violence, is viewed in a broader understanding of the notion of violence, space opens for a discussion on a challenging and controversial question about whether or not can violence be integrative either in the sense of integrating values or in the sense of confirming someone’s social status after a transgression, and to what a larger degree than by institutionalised and from an individual conceptually relatively distant forms of sanction.
This book discusses the crucial strategic topic for the practical implementation of transitional justice in post-conflict societies by arguing that the dilemma is defined by the extent to which the ...actual achievement of the political goals of transition is a necessary condition for the long-term observance and implementation of justice. While in many cases the 'blind' criminal justice does not enhance, and even militates against, the achievement of political transitions, an understanding of transitional justice as a fundamentally political process is novel, controversial and a concept which may shape the future of transitional justice. This collection contributes to developing this concept both theoretically and through concrete and current case studies from the worlds most pronounced crisis spots for transitional justice.
This volume presents the state of the art of philosophical practice worldwide from the perspectives of leading philosophical practitioners, both counselors and institutional consultants. ...Philosophical practice has developed in different directions in different parts of the world, with the focus in Europe and North America being mostly on client counseling and corporate consultancy, while in Asia it is more community-based and more closely aligned with psychotherapy. In all cases, philosophical practitioners strive to transcend the boundaries of academic philosophy and reach out to the public, to corporations, to the policy makers, to the medical, legal and many other professions. The chapters of this book illustrate both the breadth of philosophical practice and its various methodological directions, while, at the same time, showing how philosophy can be relevant to everyday life, not just for individuals, but for the economy, the government, international organizations, the helping and therapeutic professions, and the educational system. The volume is primarily a companion for students of applied philosophy on all levels, as well as for modern psychotherapists, educational professionals and academics. It is designed to support a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in philosophy and applied psychology, ranging from ancient ethics to philosophical practice sui generis, or to the philosophy of psychology.
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